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BabyEcology: A

s an Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellow,
USING SCIENCE AND INTUITION I believe this resource is exactly what every parent
TO CREATE THE BEST FEEDING,
SLEEP, AND PLAY ENVIRONMENT and professional working with young children should
FOR YOUR UNIQUE BABY receive as a gift. I am confident the information
provided in this booklet has the potential to
By Anya Dunham significantly influence the trajectory of an infant’s life.
“D o you feel overloaded

with baby care advice? From:The First 60 Days Forward
Are you finding that by Jan Ference, BEd, MS, IPMHF
many parenting
techniques contradict
each other, while all
claiming to be “best” and
“right”? DIGITAL
As a scientist and mother,
Anya Dunham knew there
couldn’t be only one right Child development
way, and that raising a
baby requires more than - newborn to three months
techniques. She
examined hundreds of
studies on infant
development, sleep, and
feeding through the lens
of her research field,
ecology, and made a key
discovery:
There is a biologically
optimal nurturing “C
environment for all oming into the world is a big and scary
babies – and within it, a adventure for babies. At first, they don't
variety of healthy options
to meet different babies’ know you are there to feed and care for
unique needs.. them - they only know when they feel

comfortable and safe, or otherwise.
However, even from birth, they start to

communicate and give you little signals
when they are tired or hungry, or awake and

alert. They are learning all the time, and the
job of parents is to help them know that the

world is a welcoming place where their
needs will be met.”

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